A Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice woman was doing a good deed by helping three youths on Sunday morning but it ended up costing her the lobes of her ears when they attacked her.
The woman, Devika Prettipaul, 37, who bled profusely from the wounds also sustained two long cuts to the bottom of her feet that were intended to render her immobile.
After slicing her ears they pushed the pieces of her ears in her mouth, forcing her to swallow but she managed to spit them out. She is still trying to figure out what may have caused the youths to torture her like that.
She was wearing three pairs of gold earrings at the time but the youths only removed one and left it behind saying that they were not there to rob her. They only carted off her cellular phone.
Recounting her ordeal, she said she was under her house around 9 am when the youngest boy said “aunty please fuh a help.” She left to go upstairs to get the money not realizing that they had followed her.
She was coming out of the bedroom with the “small change” when she saw the two older youths in the house. They held on to her and told her “don’t holler. Me tell them that whatever dem come fah me guh give dem, leh dem doan do me nothing.”
One of the youths told the other one to stab her but be responded that he was waiting on her husband. “Dem had the knife right up to me neck and me couldn’t turn to watch the other one because the knife woulda bore me.”
The woman said the youths had pushed her down on the bed before launching the attack. She said she grabbed a towel and covered head and ears because of the bleeding and did not know when the attackers escaped.
After a while she removed the towel when she no longer heard them but she was unable to call anyone because her phone was gone.
Despite her wounded and bleeding feet she walked out of the room and called out to the neighbours for help.
A vehicle owner picked up her husband, a labourer who had gone to work with a cash crop farmer in the village before taking her to the hospital. She is diabetic and was worried that the wounds would take a long time to heal.
The woman recalled that she was relaxing in her hammock around 9 am the previous day when she saw two boys passing on a bicycle. One of them said to her “oh, ya watch me.” She looked back at her dog to see if he would charge them.
They then turned back and the same one said to her “me stap this bicycle, tek wan good look at meh… Meh gon deal with you and yuh husband and must tell Alim [employer].”
By then she got scared and got up from the hammock and they left. She had described the youths to family members and her son came home that evening and said he saw three strange youths in the village.
